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A miracle is what you call it when you see something that you can't explain and you're too impressed to try and figure out exactly what happened. Religion is riddled with them because miracles are taken as proof of the truth of religious beliefs. Science tends to take a somewhat less accommodating position towards the concept preferring to work with methodological naturalism.

Many of the miracles reported in the Bible are of the tall-tale variety that include the parting of the Red Sea, bringing back a dude named Lazarus from the dead (he was just sleepin'!), and surviving the raging fires of an oven.

Every once in a while a particularly dim Godbotherer will try to claim a miracle occurred when something medical happens that isn't well-understood, like, say, the seriously amazing spinal-injury rescue of Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett; while some religious people claimed a miracle kept him from permanent paralysis, most scientific types are more apt to credit years of research on spinal cord injuries, emergency medicine, and dumb luck.

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